I Know It’s An April Fool, But I Still Want An iPhone-To-iPad Converter

You know, for my mythical iPhone. At an April Fool’s Day price of only £89.99 ($149), the converter makes your inserted iPhone magnify to the size of an iPad. A far better investment, if you ask me. [IWantOneOfThose.com]


Online

Trololo As ASCII Art Is A Thing Of Perverse Beauty

Dear internet, please give up on April Fools’ jokes. YouTube’s is untoppable: A “text-only mode” that renders videos as coloured ASCII art. Clever, gorgeous, perverse.


March 16, 2010
Geek Out

Even Microsoft Execs Like Making Fun Of Steve Ballmer

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Ritual Steve Ballmer humiliation isn’t just for blogs anymore! Nope, now even Microsoft’s corporate class – in this case Microsoft Developer Division VP Scott Guthrie – is in on the joke. Way in.


February 25, 2010

Someone Finally Took The iPad Joke To Its Ridiculous Conclusion

I don’t even know where to start, but this iMaxi is exactly what you think it is. It’s designed to “protect” your iPad, and was made as a one-off on Etsy. I’m sure they’d make you more.


January 28, 2010
Geek Out

Let’s Get Over The iPad Jokes ‘Cause Steve Doesn’t Care

I don’t know whether to go to an Apple store or the feminine care aisle to purchase an iPad. Oh, don’t groan! You cracked similar jokes. And let’s face it: They’re all kinda lame and won’t bother Steve whatsoever.


January 7, 2010
Geek Out

Ballmer’s CES Keynote Jokes And Antics

At tonight’s Microsoft Keynote, dear ol’ Steve Ballmer made it a point to include plenty of lame jokes, gimmicks and antics. Whether all of them were intentional, we’ll never know, but here are our favourites.


December 12, 2009
Computing

Joking Computer Puns At Sixth-Grade Level

It gets boring this time of year in Scotland. That’s what I assume anyway, knowing that scientists in Aberdeen have developed software to turn a computer into a cold pun machine. Some of the jokes are funny! Most are not.


December 1, 2009

INFLU: The Flu Collector™

Swine flu: do you have it yet? No? Well why not? You need to get yourself an INFLU mask, stat.


October 11, 2009
Online

Metaphysics, Parseltongue Easier To Understand Than Google Wave

Don’t understand Google Wave, even after Google’s helpful video and Lifehacker’s review? You’re not alone: Some jokester created a site where users vote on how confusing Wave really is. Interestingly, while death is easier to understand, women are far harder.


September 5, 2009
Science

Moronic Newspapers Reprint Onion’s Conspiracy Article As Fact

I thought some “readers” were joking when they claimed they believed the Onion’s story on a conspiracy theorist finally convincing Neil Armstrong about how the Moon landings were faked. They weren’t. Like these two newspapers, who reprinted it as fact.